Praying while lighting up

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Okay I’m a smoker (yes I know it’s bad for me so let’s leave that aside). I talk to God throughout the day. Often when I go out for my morning smoke I start praying. “Good morning Lord. Thank you for a new day.” But I wonder is this rude? Should I stop praying while in the middle of a cigarette? It’s not just then of course. If i have one in the middle of the day I’m still praying.
 
I’m sure many will say you should not smoke while you pray.

I offer another view. If you’re smoking, does that mean you should stop praying? When do you need the prayers more?

Alan
 
You might be on to something. Native Americans smoked when they prayed. God knows that some Catholics drink when they pray. Even Jesus got tipsy when he did his first miracle.
 
I’m sure Christ never even came close to anything approaching intoxication.
 
How are you so sure? He turned water into wine, only after all the wine was gone, he may not have been drunk but he probably had a stronger buzz going than what a mere cigarette could produce.
 
Because the Church considers drunkeness immoral. He would not doing anything immoral. In fact willful intoxication is mortally sinful.
 
Intoxication yes but feeling the effects of alcohol while still maintaining his faculties does leave some wiggle room. He may have been in better “spirits” asa result of his drinking. My point is however many glasses of wine he had (even if it was one) it definitely trumps the effect of one cigarette.
 
I didnt know we were allowed to let ourselves feel the effects of alcoholm not saying you are wrong. Just thought it was stricter than that.
 
Why is cigarettes so frowned upon when ALCOHOL has done WAY MORE damage to the human body and mind combined?
 
Layp3rs0n said:
Okay I’m a smoker (yes I know it’s bad for me so let’s leave that aside). I talk to God throughout the day. Often when I go out for my morning smoke I start praying. “Good morning Lord. Thank you for a new day.” But I wonder is this rude? Should I stop praying while in the middle of a cigarette? It’s not just then of course. If i have one in the middle of the day I’m still praying.
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Two Jesuit novices both wanted a cigarette while they prayed. They decided to ask their superior for permission. The first asked but was told no. A little while later he spotted his friend smoking and praying. “Why did the superior allow you to smoke and not me?” he asked. His friend replied, “Because you asked if you could smoke while you prayed, and I asked if I could pray while I smoked!” --Anonymous
 
Luke 7:33-34

For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and you said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’

Just can’t please anybody, I guess.

Alan
 
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Two Jesuit novices both wanted a cigarette while they prayed. They decided to ask their superior for permission. The first asked but was told no. A little while later he spotted his friend smoking and praying. “Why did the superior allow you to smoke and not me?” he asked. His friend replied, “Because you asked if you could smoke while you prayed, and I asked if I could pray while I smoked!” --Anonymous
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Good story!

Sums it up nicely! 🙂
 
Layp3rs0n said:
Okay I’m a smoker (yes I know it’s bad for me so let’s leave that aside). I talk to God throughout the day. Often when I go out for my morning smoke I start praying. “Good morning Lord. Thank you for a new day.” But I wonder is this rude? Should I stop praying while in the middle of a cigarette? It’s not just then of course. If i have one in the middle of the day I’m still praying.
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Look at it this way, if you had an opportunity to talk face to face with the President of your country for instance, would you be puffing away at your cigarette as you discuss whatever issues with him?
No, it is much better not to smoke while praying. A smoke filled prayer is still prayer of course but second best in my opinion:)
I came across this joke on line some time ago:
Two Jesuit novices both wanted a cigarette while they prayed. They decided to ask their superior for permission. The first asked but was told no. A little while later he spotted his friend smoking and praying. “Why did the superior allow you to smoke and not me?” he asked. His friend replied, “Because you asked if you could smoke while you prayed, and I asked if I could pray while I smoked!”
 
No, there is nothing wrong with it. We are to pray without ceasing. It’s good that you pray throughout your daily activities.
 
I’m not going to pass judgement either way. But it does remind me of a story my old pastor told me.

At one time he had a lady in his congregation who was a new Christian. But she was also a chain-smoker. They tried to talk her out of it, but to no avail.

When they had Bible studies in someone’s home, she’d be there along with her cigarettes and a perennial cloud of cigarette smoke around the ceiling. Meanwhile the others were just about asphyxiated, but put up with it as they didn’t want to discourage her.

But one day she didn’t smoke. Then the next, and the next. They wondered what had happened, so they cautiously asked her.

She said, “Well, God said to me, 'You know, Elsie, that’s a packet of old rubbish you’ve got there…” She continued, “So I thought about it, and you know, He was right.”

“So I stopped.”
 
I know this won’t go over very big, but we should not be attached to anything.
“Where your treasure is there is your heart.” Jesus.
 
I’m a smoker too, so I must weigh in on this…

I look at it this way:
Jesus KNOWS I smoke, so why hide it when I pray? I’m not fooling him nor would I try to.
I’m trying to cut back, while offering up the withdrawl ‘pain’ to Him. I did quit last year for lent and a few months after but picked up again (like an idiot I thought I could smoke for a weekend and then quit again).

Pray for us smokers!!
 
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